The Power of Moments: Why
Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
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The New York Times bestselling authors of
Switch and Made to Stick
explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us–and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.
While human lives are endlessly variable, our most
memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight,
pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments
that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember 20 years later? What if a manager knew how to creat an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children?
This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of
experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience,
as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. Why "we feel most comfortable
when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they're not." And why our
most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our
youth.
Readers discover how brief experiences can
change lives, such as the experiment in which two strangers meet in a room, and
45 minutes later, they leave as best friends. (What happens in that time??) Or
the tale of the world's youngest female billionaire, who credits her resilience
to something her father asked the family at the dinner table. (What was the
question?)
Many of the defining moments in our lives
are the result of accident or luck–but why would we leave our most meaningful,
memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of
Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.
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